Morality, self-knowledge and human suffering : an essay on the loss of confidence in the world / / Josep E. Corbi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785793403321
• Autore: Corbi Josep E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-31350-8; 1-283-58669-X; 9786613899149; 0-203-11918-5; 1-136-31351-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; ; 38
• Disciplina: 128/.4
• Soggetti: Suffering - Moral and ethical aspects; Civilization, Modern - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Thought Experiments, Justice and Character; 1.1 John Rawls: The Original Position; 1.2 Primo Levi's Shame; 1.3 The Kantian Approach; 2 The Loss of Confidence in the World; 2.1 The Issue; 2.2 The Three Poles of Torture; 2.3 The Content of Our Expectations; 2.4 The Loss of Confidence in the World as an Irrational Reaction; 2.5 The Realm of Reasons and the Faustian Ideal; 2.6 Distance and Kinds of Awareness; 2.7 The Moral Reversal of Time; 2.8 To Close: A Necessary Illusion; 3 The Real and the Imaginary in the Soldier's Experience3.1 An Initial Approximation; 3.2 The Departure; 3.3 The Battlefield; 3.4. The Homecoming; 3.5 Expressive Awareness and the Matching Assumption; 4 The Reality of Moral Features; 4.1 The Need of a Response; 4.2 Moral Projectivism and the Bipartite Picture; 4.3 A Narrative Discipline; 4.4 Response-Dependent Properties; 4.5 Procedural vs. Substantive Realism; 4.6 The Moral Law; 4.7 The Space of Public Reasons; 5 Moral Principles and the Divided Conception of the Self; 5.1 Narrative Discipline and the Perplexities of Disagreement; 5.2 Moral Principles and the Divided Conception of the Self5.3 Character and Moral Principles; 5.4 Guilt, Principles and Morality; 5.5 Inner Figures and the Global Attack; 5.6 Inner Figures and the Human World; 6 Self-Knowledge in the Light of a Dance; 6.1 The Issue; 6.2 The Deliberative and the Theoretical Attitudes; 6.3 The Transparency Condition; 6.4 Avowals and the Goal of Psychoanalytic Treatment; 6.5 The Notion of Acknowledgment; 6.6 'Being Forced To'; 6.7 Receptive Passivity and Double Permeability; 6.8 Receptive Passivity and the Experience of Dancing; 6.9 Expression, Inner Figures and Psychic Health7 Conclusion; 7.1 The Moral Question; 7.2 The Divided Conception of the Self; 7.3 The Frailty of Principles; 7.4 Expressive Awareness and the Three Poles of Harm; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments, Corbi proposes a novel approach to self-knowledge that runs counter to standard Kantian approaches to morality.